[governance] IGC workshops

Tue Apr 22 12:21:55 EDT 2008

Bill, Thanks for the clarifications. 

We urgently need someone to take this work up. Adam, you had shown some
interest in making this a mid-term review of the IGF. Or you Vittorio, you
can bring some continuity for the last years group. Lee? Willie?. Anyone
else.

We already have three members - Karen, Baudouin and Jeremy - ready to be in
the WG. Need a convener. I assure anyone who takes this job up that it will
quite fulfilling :-), and not too taxing, as Bill explained.

Thanks

Parminder 

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From: William Drake [mailto:william.drake at graduateinstitute.ch] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 1:48 AM
To: Governance
Subject: Re: [governance] IGC workshops

Hi Parminder,

On the role and mandate workshop:  Having done it last year, I don't think
it's right for me to do it again, and anyway I'm in the jurisdiction group.
My suggestion would be that we get new blood involved, people who've been
active in the caucus, have thought a lot about this, but can broker between
different tendencies etc.   Some obvious convener candidates like Willie,
Lee, others, come to mind if they'd be interested... 

It may be that part of what's holding people back is the prospect of a
complicated and time consuming process, but in reality, this really
shouldn't be too hard.  It's not necessary to renegotiate the ws description
from scratch and totally rethink the co-sponsors and speakers in the next
nine days.  Last year's event went well and everyone seemed to come away
fairly happy (including some parties that fretted about it in advance), so
we seemingly established a certain level of trust and understanding that the
event is useful and won't blow up the joint.  I assume the MAG would expect
to see a proposal for a v.2 from us (or more to the point, would be rather
surprised not to), and that we shouldn't have to re-convince them too
elaborately as long as we cross the T's and dot the I's in terms of being MS
with diverse views etc.  So why not resubmit largely the same text and reach
out to the more or less the same kinds of co-sponsors and non-CS speakers we
had last year (ICC/Ayesha, ISOC/Bill, developing country/India, developed
country/EC, etc), come up with three new IGC speakers with varying shades of
positions, submit whatever we have by April 30, and then add later as
needed.  

BTW, for reference, the report on last year's version of the ws is now at 
http://intgovforum.org/Rio_event_report.php?mem=30.

Best,

Bill

On 4/21/08 4:57 PM, "Parminder" <parminder at itforchange.net> wrote:

Update on workshop proposals for IGF.

1. Role and mandate of the IGF

Still looking for volunteers to convene and participate in WG. Karen and
Baudouin Schombe have expressed interest to participate. Anyone ready to
convene? . Someone from the group that did it last year? We have Bill and
Vittorio from the last year's group (Karen has said no to convening, and I
do not want to). If no one volunteers to convene in the next 24 hours, will
one of you please take up the task? In any case participation from the last
year's group will be good. 

2. Trans-boundary jurisdiction

The WG is working

3. 'The Future of ICANN: After the JPA, What?'

IGP/ Milton is going ahead with planning this. They have asked again if
anyone from the IGC will like to participate and given suggestions. 

4. Rights based approach the Internet - Implications for IG

A draft is being developed. 

As per the timeline given below, we will like to keep a draft for each
proposal for comments of the group from 23rd to 26th, and if good ground to
propose a consensus process is made out, it will be done over 27th - 29th. 

Since people are giving their valuable time to developing these proposals,
it will be good if members who have any comments on these proposals, and the
appropriateness of these being sponsored by the IGC, share them right away.

Thanks

Parminder  

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From: Parminder [mailto:parminder at itforchange.net]
<mailto:parminder at itforchange.net%5d>  
Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2008 12:26 PM
To: governance at lists.cpsr.org
Subject: RE: [governance] IGC workshops

Hi All

This is where we stand on our workshop proposals. 

1.	Role and mandate of the IGF 

The call is open for volunteers to convene and join this group. As Adam and
others said this should be a very useful exercise of evaluating the IGF at
the mid-point of its (expectedly, initial) 5 year life. We will need to
build on the work that got done for this workshop last year. As you know, we
did hold a workshop in the same topic last year and the proposal is that we
make this a regular IGF feature. 

Significantly, the IGF page listing the topic under which workshop proposals
(http://www.intgovforum.org/workshop_info.htm ) may be given says;
"Workshops on other issues relating to Internet governance and the mandate
of the IGF are also welcome." We seem to be already in. I think this is an
important impact of IGC's first ever workshop on this topic last year, that
it is now a part of the official list of themes for workshops. 

1.	Trans-boundary jurisdiction issues 

A WG convened by Bret is developing this proposal. 

1.	Internationalization  

As proposed earlier, in this slot it will be useful to put in the IGP
workshop proposal on 'The Future of ICANN: After the JPA, What?' Please see
Milton's email of the 17th on this. Any IGC member who wishes to work with
IGP group to develop/ influence this workshop proposal may write to Milton
(and/or me), and can become a part of a WG.

1.	A rights based approach to the Internet - Implications for IG 

Michael and Karen are co-coordinating a WG on this, and a proposal will soon
be shared for discussion, as with other proposal. Anyone who wants to join
this WG is welcome. 

If we can have the proposals from the WGs by the 23rd we can discuss them in
the IGC till the 26th and then put them for a consensus call. These need to
be submitted by 30th. We should get as much information in as possible to
fill in the workshop application form which lists the following questions. 

1.	Name of proposed workshop 
2.	Provide a concise description of the proposed workshop theme
including its importance and relevance to the IGF. 
3.	Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are
planning to invite. Describe the main actors in the field and whether you
have you approached them about their willingness to participate in proposed
workshop. 
4.	Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their
affiliation to various stakeholder groups. Describe how you will take steps
to adhere to the multi-stakeholder principle, geographical diversity and
gender balance. 
5.	Does the proposed workshop provide different perspectives on the
issues under discussion? 
6.	Please explain how the workshop will address issues relating to
Internet governance and describe how the workshop conforms with the Tunis
Agenda in terms of substance and the mandate of the IGF. 
7.	List similar events you and/or any other IGF workshops you have
organized in the past. 
8.	Were you part of organizing a workshop last year? Which one? Did you
submit a workshop report? 
9.	9. Under which of the five IGF themes does the proposal fall under ?

The workshop proposal request says that at this stage we need to "at least
provide answers to questions # 1,2,4 and 9".See
http://www.intgovforum.org/workshop_info.htm
<http://www.intgovforum.org/workshop_info.htm>
<http://www.intgovforum.org/workshop_info.htm> . For answering question 9,
please see the list of topics mentioned on this link, though workshops
outside these topics can also be proposed. 

Thanks. Parminder 

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